Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rather than leave the pilot to die. Corporal Torner climbed into the forward cockpit, dragged the inert body from the controls, managed to right the plane just before it would have crashed. Then he climbed the ship to a safe altitude, practiced with the controls for 15 or 20 min.. made a safe landing on Rockwell Field. When help arrived Corporal Torner was giving first aid to the sick pilot...
...Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine distance runner: a 10,000-metre run in 31 min. 26.6 sec.-1.8 sec. better than Joie Ray's U. S. record; in Manhattan. Paavo Nurmi's world record is 30 min...
...finals on, the play was almost entirely among unknowns over a deserted course in howling wind & rain. In the finals lucky John De Forest, last year's runner-up, son of Coal Tycoon Baron De Forest, defeated 22-year-old Eric Fiddian 3 & 1 in 6 hrs. 35 min. for the required 36 holes, the longest final in the tournament's history. The two boys were appointed at once to the last two places on the British Walker Cup team...
...third (Studebaker), fifth (Hupmobile) and sixth (Studebaker). But already down Indianapolis' 2½ mile-long brick oval, in the dust, heat, bedlam and gasoline fumes, a businesslike little car, fat in the middle, had buzzed busily past the finish line in the record time of 4 hr. 48 min. 3.79 sec., driven by Fred Frame, built by Harry Hartz and Harry A. Miller. Driver Frame won $20,000 first prize money, about half as much more in lap prizes and bonuses from accessory manufacturers...
...Syracuse University crew: a 1¾mi. race with Cornell and Harvard, in 8 min. 48.4 sec. (a record); on the Charles River. Cornell had lost by a split-second to Yale the week before, was rated one of the East's two top crews. Cornell's and Harvard's frantic spurts were beaten back by Syracuse rowing an unhurried 34-to-the-minute from near the start to the finish...